Enemies seem to gang up more then a year or so ago. Do you think a secret update happened? The Great Plateau gets more lightning storms as if it was the jungle region where usually storms were pretty mild and quick hitting there when they did happen. Now they last for hours with Ohio River Valley style lightning. If you've ever seen there type of severe lightning you'll know what I'm talking about!
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That sounds exactly like Master Mode.
As I have said before each time I play it there are subtle changes and it definitely gets slightly harder. The first time I played it yes it was hard as I had never played anything like it before, but, there were no brown nor white Bobolkins, now I seem to get them more or less straight away!
I know Link gets stronger throughout the game but I wonder if the game learns from the player! It would be very interesting to be able to wipe the slate clean, as it were, and play as a complete newbie and see what the difference would be!